Lost in a blur of blitzes!

[Moonee Ponds Permablitz, from my flickr]

Ack, where did the week go? It's the weekend again?! Why do I have a funny feeling it's going to be Xmas before I know it?

Just a quickie post tonight, I must schedule some time for catch ups.

Went to my second Permablitz last weekend. To my shame, it's taken 9 months for me to finally get to another one since my first taste in November last year. But I recently learnt fromRussell Brand that you can pretty much get away with admitting to ANYTHING, as long as you precede your sentence with 'to my shame'. To my shame, I am admitting to taking life advice from Russell Brand.

Anyway, stand by for photos from my second Permablitz. I'm very excited that there are some happening on my side of the river! Last week's was in Moonee Ponds. I helped pull up grass, shovelled dirt, ran around with soaking pieces of cardboard for sheet mulch, shovelled compost and mulch, jumped up and down to stamp down a mulch path on top of a swale (that was fun - jumpy castle, the permablitz way!), planted black currants and perennial herbs...

And I was also challenged by a very young man whose first question to me, 15 mins after I'd arrived, voiced loudly across a table full of people I had just met, was 'WHY DO YOU HAVE SPOTS ON YOUR FACE?' At 10.30am the only thing I could think to say back was '... I only have one spot' :( I hadn't even had time to tell anyone my name yet. I'm surprised they didn't all just call me Spotty for the rest of the day.

A little bit later I heard him asking another lady who was madly working away with a mattock 'ARE YOU A MAN?' so I felt a little better. But it was only temporary because a couple of hours afte that he asked me why we were soaking cardboard in the splashy pool. I vainly tried to explain that it was to stop the grass growing back where we had just pulled it out from. He looked me sternly in the eye and said 'GRASS NEEDS WATER. [PAUSE] I AM *VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU*!'

I shlepped off to go shovel some more dirt. Kids scare me.

I was going to go to a free meditation class this Saturday at the local Buddhist centre. They run them fairly regularly. Each term they put on one free class for people to come along and see if they like it and if you do you can sign up for a course of classes. 4 classes for $20! Pretty good deal. But then I saw there is another Permablitz for 70 year old Monica, also in Moonee Ponds! So I decided there will be plenty of time for meditating later. Now's the time to get down and dirty! Hopefully I won't be disappointing anyone there with my spotty face.